Two EVAs are scheduled to occur on August 16 & August 23. The plan is
to deploy the last two ISS Ham radio antennas (WA1 and WA2) during the August 23 EVA. The antennas will be installed along the perimeter of
the aft end of the service module, closest to the Soyuz docking port. WA1 will be located at the 8 o'clock position and WA2 will be located
at the 4 o'clock position. FYI, 6 o'clock is down (Earth Pointing) and 12 o'clock is up. The EVA to deploy these is planned to start
around 3:30 UTC on August 23.

The following paper has some great pictures and diagrams which depict
the entire ISS ham system, including the antenna systems. This paper is probably big for some that have low bandwidth internet capabilities.
The file is about 800K. http://ariss.gsfc.nasa.gov/EVAs/amsat01.pdf

The ARISS-U.S. team is working with our Russian counterpart, Sergej
Samburov, RV3DRto support this EVA. The U.S. team will be supporting this EVA from the control centers at the Johnson Space Center in Houston,
Texas and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Russian team will be supporting this at the TSUP (Mission Control Center)
in Korolev (Moscow area).

US Astronaut Peggy Whitson, KC5ZTD, was the guest of honor via ham radio
August 7 of more than 100 youngsters attending space camp in Belgium. The
direct contact between NA1SS aboard the International Space Station and ON4ESC at the Euro Space Center, which is hosting the camp, was arranged
and coordinated via the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
(ARISS) program.

ARISS Vice Chairman Gaston Bertels, ON4WF, said that because the youngsters spoke either Dutch or French, a computer program was used by
those translating the astronaut's English, which displayed the translations on a screen. Campers ranged in age from 8 to 15.

Among other things, Whitson talked about what got her interested in becoming an astronaut. "When I was nine, I watched Neil Armstrong and Buzz
Aldrin walk on the moon," she told the youngsters, "and I thought that it
would be a very special job to be able to be an astronaut."

The ARISS contact got widespread media coverage in Belgium.

The space camp contact marked Whitson's third such QSO for ARISS. On August 2, Whitson answered questions from 15 students via 8N3ISS at the
Kansai Ham Festival 2002 in Hirakata, Japan. On July 3, Whitson had a successful direct contact with DN1SZA at the Progymnasium Rosenfeld in
Germany.

In other ARISS news, NASA has announced that it will deploy the last two
ISS amateur radio antennas during the second of two space walks set for August. The two VHF-UHF flexible tape antennas will be installed August 23
along the perimeter of the aft end of the Zvezda Service Module -- the crew's living quarters.

Expedition 5 Crew Commander Valery Korzun, RZ3FK, and cosmonaut Sergei
Treschev, RZ3FU, will carry out the space walk. Installation of the new antenna on the Zvezda Service Module will make possible two separate ham
stations aboard the ISS -- one on 2 meters and the other on 70 cm. Plans
call for installing HF gear at NA1SS, as well as higher power VHF and UHF
equipment.

ARISS is an international project sponsored jointly by ARRL, NASA and
AMSAT. More information is available on the ARISS web site http://ariss.gsfc.nasa.gov.
Information for this report was provided by Gaston Bertels, ON4WF, and by NASA.

ALON/ALAT

Testing of three different DSP modulators has been done during the AO-40
RUDAK windows over the US. Two worked, one didn't. Further testing on the
153k6 experiment is planned for future RUDAK windows.

The recent testing included an AFSK signal that briefly produced an FM
carrier with a 1 KHz tone modulating it.

A "pseudo-ZRO" test was left running. It puts out a carrier at 2401.864
that starts out at full power and reduces power by 3dB every 10 seconds.
It goes down to 45 dB below the full power level. WD0E reports he can detect the signal until it goes below -42 and -45 dB. This calibrated,
weak signal provides a good test of your receiving capability.

Note that some IMD products are present when this signal is at higher power
levels. Specifically, when just the 9k6 FM downlink is on there are IMD
products above and below it about 53 kHz. When the 'ZRO' carrier is also
on additional IMD products are generated. One is about 30 kHz below the
FM signal, another is about 50 kHz above the FM signal. Don't be confused
by those. The 'ZRO' signal is a pure carrier, no modulation. We would like to hear how well the 'ZRO' signal can be heard a low levels. Reports
to wd0e@amsat.org please. The 'ZRO' code will be allowed to run as much
as possible but may not be on if that hardware is needed for other testing.

The purpose of this code is to further our understanding of how to program
the DSP hardware. The objective remains to produce easily usable links to
RUDAK.

There was another Pioneer 10 contact on Sunday, 7/14/02. The Deep Space
Station near Madrid found the signal but was unable to consistently lock
onto the receiver. The signal level was reported at -185 dBm, just about
at the threshold value.

During the three hour pass, lock could only be held for about a minute.
The uplink from Goldstone, California sent Saturday, 7/13/02, confirmed that the spacecraft signal is still there.

Pioneer 10 is currently at a distance from Sun of 80.82 AU, traveling
at a speed relative to the Sun of 12.24 km/sec (27,380 mph). The current distance from Earth to Pioneer 10 is 12.21 billion kilometers
(7.59 billion miles) with a round-trip tight time of 22 hours 37 minutes.

In March 2002, when contact was last established with Pioneer 10, it was
at a distance of 79.7 AU with a received downlink signal strength at about
-183 dBm.

Dr. Anthony Mann of the Physics department at the Western Australian University has created a
receiving system which allows him to tune in television signals from the US.

Tony has been a DX TV enthusiast for decades, using his scientific credentials to stretch the laws of physical limits in order to "See further
and further, unaided by satellites or wire". His latest accomplishment,
apparently a first, is to work out the parameters for using the Moon as a
satellite reflector for bouncing TV signals from the USA into Australia.

So far there's nothing very special about that except that the antenna is
mounted on a tripod 1.5 meters above ground with the ability to adjust both
azimuth and elevation to track the Moon in his sky.

Fortunately a Moon setting in Oklahoma is well above the horizon in Perth,
Western Australia.

The signal Tony receives is tiny, very tiny, and not enough to produce a
picture he can watch or even sound he can listen to. At this stage, it's
not about watching Bugs Bunny cartoons, it's all a bit more scientific than that.

Knowing the transmitters frequency to within a few Hertz, yes that's right
Hertz, is essential as what Tony is searching for is a "beat note" indication that a carrier signal is present on the Icom receiver.

By using web amateur "Moon bounce" web sites he was able to calculate the
Doppler shift for a group of likely TV stations, and then got hold of a precise TV station's transmitting frequency down to the last two Hertz;
i.e., 501.248XXX, the X's being the Doppler shift migrated.

Results this year have included signals originating in Oklahoma and Indiana.

ANSWER: Christian Andreas
NOTE: The answer for Surrey was "Johann", because my text books are incorrect ... you learn something new every day!

13). How many moons orbit Mars?

ANSWER: 2

14). What are "Hammer-Aitoff", "Mercator", and "Mollweide" collectively known as?

ANSWER: Map Projections

15). Who wrote in 1950: "THE ROCKET motor is unique among prime movers in two respects -- its independence of any external medium, and its ability to generate colossal thrusts and powers"?

ANSWER: Arthur C. Clarke

16). What was the first spacecraft to orbit Mars?

ANSWER: Mariner 9

17). In what year was INTELSAT's first satellite (Early Bird) launched?

ANSWER: [6 April] 1965

18). The first US satellite, Explorer 1 discovered the Van Allen radiation
belts. Was it launched in (A) January 1958 or (B) February 1958?

ANSWER: A - 31 January 1958

19). Which Apollo mission was crewed by Scott, Irwin & Worden?

ANSWER: Apollo 15

20). In what US state was Robert Hutchings Goddard professor of physics when he BEGAN experimenting with rockets?

ANSWER: Massachusetts

21). Is a "jacobi" a measure of (A) electric resistance or (B) electromagnetic radiation flux density?

ANSWER: A [Obsolete unit of electric resistance defined in 1848. It is the resistance of a copper wire of length 25 feet which has the mass equal to 345 grains]

22). A hubble is an obsolete unit of distance used in astronomy. Does one hubble equal 9.46052973 x 10 to the power 24 metres - yes or no?

ANSWER: YES

23). Was the obsolete British unit of length - "The Iron" employed in the measurement of (A) Railway/Railroad tracks or (B) Shoes?

ANSWER: B - Shoes

24). What amateur satellite has the NORAD/NASA catalog number of 07530?

ANSWER: AMSAT-OSCAR-7

25). What amateur satellite has the NORAD/NASA catalog number of 26609?

ANSWER: AMSAT-OSCAR-40

26). In 1998 Bryan Burrough wrote a book called "Dragonfly". Which orbital object was the setting for this book?

ANSWER: Mir

27). In IPS what is the result of 1 2 + DUP + (DUP is pronouced DUPE)

ANSWER: 6

28). What is the oldest satellite built at the University of Surrey still in orbit[ and working ]?

ANSWER: UoSAT 2 / Oscar 11

29). What does the abbreviation "WOD" stand for?

ANSWER: Whole Orbit Data

30). In the AO-40 telemetry stream what block usually follows a K,L,M,N or E block?

ANSWER: A

31). Since January 1, 1972, most and now all broadcast time services distribute timescales based upon the redefined Coordinated Universal Time, which differs from TAI (Atomic Time) by an integer number of seconds. What is the abbreviation of Coordinated Universal Time?

ANSWER: UTC

32). What does the abbreviation DOVE, as in DOVE-OSCAR-17 stand for?

ANSWER: Digital Orbiting Voice Encoder

33). In what year was UoSAT-Oscar-11 launched?

ANSWER: 1984

34). Which was launched first (A) AMSAT-OSCAR-7 or (B) Pioneer 11?

ANSWER: B - Pioneer 11

35). In mythology was Ariane a (1) Greek or (2) Roman heroine?

ANSWER: 1 - Greek

36). The US space probe Pioneer 12 was renamed before launch to what?

ANSWER: Pioneer Venus NOTE: The answer at Surrey was Voyager.
This in incorrect. Voyager was known as Mariner Jupiter/Saturn. [Thanks
to G3RUH for correction]

37). In what year did the comet Shoemaker-Levy-9 crash into Jupiter?

ANSWER: [16-22 July] 1994

38). To what email address should everyone send in their AO-40 telemetry capture?

It doesn't seem that long ago, but 25 years ago this past week, the Approach and Landing Tests leading to the first free flight of
the prototype shuttle orbiter Enterprise were underway at Edwards. The first free flight occurred on Aug 12, 1977. The tests proved
the shuttle could be controlled during the last portion of its descent from space and make a precision landing on a conventional
runway.-- NASA

China's Shenzhou spacecraft engineers and researchers recently conducted airdrop tests of its descent subsystem in preparation for
what is expected to be the last unmanned Shenzhou test mission, Shenzhou-4, later this year.-- SpaceDaily

NASA publications and fact sheets about the Kennedy Space Center are currently available on line as pdf and postscript files. These
include the latest versions of orbiter processing, KSC transporters, and SRB recovery fact sheets, plus the Space Shuttle wall chart.
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/educate/docs.htm.-- NASA

The L1 uplink on AO-40 was made available in the second passband slot,
as well as L2 on the morning of August 11. Keep in touch with the current
AO-40 schedule to find out about any changes.-- Charlie G3WDG

At Kennedy Space Center, Fla., welding repairs on liquid hydrogen flow
liner cracks in Space Shuttle Atlantis' Main Propulsion System began last
week. Atlantis and its crew are slated to launch no earlier than September 28
to begin their journey to the International Space Station. STS-112 will
deliver and install the S1 (S-One) Truss onto the orbital outpost.-- NASA and Arthur N1ORC

NASA engineers were dealt a setback when cracks were found on the bearings of the massive transporter platform that moves space shuttles
to their launchpad. The news came as NASA said their engineers found and
successfully welded holes in the hydrogen flow liners of the space shuttle
Atlantis' propulsion system.-- SpaceDaily

Russia will launch a European probe towards Mars on a Soyuz rocket at
the end of 2003, sources at the European Space Agency said last week quoted
by the Interfax news agency.-- SpaceDaily

NASA's Stardust spacecraft, sent out to collect and return with the first samples from a comet, has begun collecting samples of cosmic dust.--SpaceDaily